DeLawrence Grant

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DeLawrence Grant
No. 95, 99, 59
Position: Defensive end/Linebacker
Personal information
Born: (1979-11-18) November 18, 1979 (age 44)
Compton, California, U.S.
Height:6 ft 3 in (1.91 m)
Weight:280 lb (127 kg)
Career information
College: Oregon State
NFL Draft: 2001  / Round: 3 / Pick: 27
Career history
Career NFL statistics
Tackles:67
Sacks:7.0
Passes defended:1
Player stats at NFL.com  ·  PFR

DeLawrence Grant, Jr. (born November 18, 1979) is a former American football linebacker who played college football at Oregon State and was selected by the Oakland Raiders in the third round of the 2001 NFL Draft.

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College career

DeLawrence Grant was a defensive end for Oregon State University.

Professional career

Grant was selected by the Raiders in the third round of the 2001 NFL Draft and has played five years for them. [1] Grant began his career as a defensive end before being converted to linebacker.

He played sparingly as a rookie in 2001, before starting at left end for most of the Raiders' Super Bowl season in 2002. That season Delawrence was ranked top 10.

That offseason, he was released by the Raiders for salary cap reasons, but was later re-signed. Due to an injury, he played only half the season in 2005, missing most of the middle portion.

One of the stranger aspects of Grant's star-crossed Raiders career is his continual switch in uniform number. He started out as No. 95, then switched to No. 99 when a more experienced player, Sam Adams, was signed and was issued the jersey. He then switched to No. 59 (the reverse of his prior No. 95) after moving to linebacker, since numbers in the 50s were thought of as linebackers' numbers.

NFL career statistics

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Regular season

YearTeamGamesTacklesInterceptionsFumbles
GPGSCmbSoloAstSckTFLIntYdsTDLngPDFFFRYdsTD
2001 OAK 200000.00000000000
2002 OAK 1614262153.06000000100
2003 OAK 134188101.02000000000
2004 OAK 99201462.03000010000
2005 OAK 903211.00000000000
49276745227.011000010100

Playoffs

YearTeamGamesTacklesInterceptionsFumbles
GPGSCmbSoloAstSckTFLIntYdsTDLngPDFFFRYdsTD
2002 OAK 334220.50000000000
334220.50000000000

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References

  1. "2001 NFL Draft Listing". Pro-Football-Reference.com. Retrieved 2023-03-18.